Enter your own assumptions and compare potential net upside with the equivalent adverse strategy movement. Treat every output as a scenario, not a forecast.
Try an example: enter the amount you would deposit, choose the programme multiplier and enter a hypothetical percentage result for the underlying strategy. The calculator shows what that could mean for your own capital.
Illustrative monthly upside
+$2,016
Net return on your capital +20.16%
Amplified capital
$240,000
Gross profit
+$2,880
Performance fee
-$864
Equivalent downside
-$2,880
Loss on your capital -28.80%
Capital remaining
$7,120
Recovery required
+40.45%
Underlying result
-1.20%
What if Sonic's historical average repeated?
$226,944
Illustrative capital after 17 months if the same calculated net monthly return repeated and every profit was reinvested.
Starting capital
$10,000
Monthly net assumption
+20.16%
Illustrative gain
+$216,944
Historical scenario, not a forecast. The default inputs use a 1.20% underlying monthly result, 24X amplification and a 30% performance fee, producing about 20.16% net in this simplified model. The referenced Sonic history and user-reported experience do not guarantee that any future month will repeat this result.
Illustrative mathematics only. Real trading results vary and can include losing months, drawdowns, execution differences and programme-rule changes. Compounding assumes the same positive net result every month and full reinvestment of profits; actual results will not follow a smooth compounding curve.
How the calculator works
Amplified capital equals your capital multiplied by the selected amplification. Gross profit is the amplified capital multiplied by the strategy move. On positive outcomes the selected performance fee is deducted. The downside card applies the same underlying move in the opposite direction without a performance fee.
Why show profit and risk together?
Amplification can make a modest underlying strategy return look large relative to personally contributed capital. The same mechanism also increases sensitivity to losses. Showing both sides prevents a profit projection from being mistaken for a forecast.
How to read the compounding scenario
If compounding is enabled, the calculator repeats the selected net monthly scenario mathematically over time. It does not assume that a real strategy will deliver the same return every month. Real trading results vary and can include losing periods and larger drawdowns than previously observed.
Capital amplification describes the relationship between contributed capital and capital allocated under a programme. Broker leverage concerns the market exposure an account can support through margin. They can exist at different layers of the same trading setup.
After modelling upside, test a larger adverse move and calculate the gain required to recover from the resulting loss. Historical drawdown should not be treated as a maximum future drawdown.
The Sonic AI research hub separates performance evidence, amplification, fees, withdrawals, broker structure and risk so the calculator assumptions can be compared with the available product information.